ACTIVE & ADVENTURE WEEKENDS DESTINATIONS
and you can squeeze in some pretty wild adventures – and we’re not just talking about a Friday night out on the town. From climbing North Africa’s
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highest mountain to hiking an Alpine glacier, hang-gliding in New York to hunting down the northern lights, you’ll be surprised at what can be fitted into a few action-packed days – and your clients will be too. We’ve rounded up some of
the best breaks for those who are short on time but big on adventure, with commission- boosting packages on hand to impress your clients and plump up your purse in the process.
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w GO OFF ROAD IN ICELAND Steaming geysers, bubbling hot springs, multicoloured lava tunnels and luminescent-blue glaciers – when it comes to extraordinary, winter-wonderland sights accessible over a weekend, nothing quite beats Iceland. The gateway to it all is
Reykjavik. You’ll find plenty of tours from the city, but for something a little different, suggest Super Break’s full-day Super Jeep tour of the Golden Circle, which takes guests to all the key sights – the geysers, Gullfoss waterfall, Thingvellir National Park and beyond. It also throws in a snowmobile experience on the enormous Langjökull glacier, plus a caving
adventure in the kaleidoscope- like lava tunnels. Osprey Holidays also offers a Super Jeep tour and plenty of other activities, including horse riding, whale watching and the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal seawater spa, while Dive Worldwide takes it up a notch with a three-night package featuring diving at the Silfra site – a series of underwater ravines, tunnels and caverns, where t he water temperature gets no warmer than a chilly 2-4C. Book it: Super Break offers a three-night trip to Reykjavik including the full-day Golden Circle, snowmobile and caving tour from £915 per person, based on two sharing at the Radisson
Blu Saga hotel, with breakfast, flights and transfers, in October.
superbreak.com/agents
w CLIMB MOUNT TOUBKAL If the idea of popping over to North Africa for the weekend to climb its highest mountain gets your clients buzzing, look no further than Mount Toubkal. Peeping out from Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains and stretching to an impressive height of 4,167 metres, it’s by no means an easy challenge, but it’s perfectly doable as a long weekend thanks to tours by the likes of KE Adventure Travel. Clients on the operator’s three- night trip will have an evening in Marrakech’s historic medina
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